Crippling and Severe

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Crippling adjective - That cripples or disables or incapacitates.

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Severe and crippling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Severe" instead an adjective "Crippling".

Nearby Words: cripple, crippled

Severe adjective - Given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint.

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Crippling and severe are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crippling" instead an adjective "Severe".

Nearby Words: severely, severity, severed

Hanako Ikezawa in Katawa Shoujo has severe burn scars from a childhood tragedy and crippling shyness as a result of them.

Source: Physical Scars, Psychological Scars
This may be due to being The Ditz, or a severe case of crippling genre blindness.

Source: Sliding Scale of Character Appreciation
Or giving Ray severe injuries, enhancing him with bionic parts, then accidentally re-crippling him.

Source: Serial Escalation / Western Animation

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